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As another user notes above, there are relatively few applications of 3rd party cookies that aren’t a direct privacy violation or that can’t be realized some ot
by matthewdgreen 2y ago
As another user notes above, there are relatively few applications of 3rd party cookies that aren’t a direct privacy violation or that can’t be realized some other way. If the manufacturer installed a special slot on your car that was explicitly designed so that anyone could install a tracking device, the first thing you’d probably do is fill that slot up with epoxy. But when we discuss simply removing that slot as a manufacturer default, everyone on HN is suddenly up in arms: “why are you blaming the third party tracking slot!? The slot itself isn’t what’s tracking you.”
- orangecat 2y agoRight. Disabling third party cookies is the first thing I do with any browser (the second being uBlock Origin), and it's caused problems on exactly one site that I can recall over the last several years.
- timewizard 2y agoThat's because Safari made that default years ago and we've all built workarounds for this anyways. Due to the proliferation of JavaScript and it's being default enabled on all sites or they _will_ break... and the ease of setting up APIs in the cloud.. your privacy settings really don't matter much anymore anyways. Likewise "autoplay blocking" isn't too hard to overcome. It's more out of politeness that it's ever honored.
- Yeul 2y agoI have two browsers on my phone. One is locked down and the other one is vanilla for those rare cases when I absolutely need to experience the internet as intended.